{"id":1407485,"date":"2022-03-29T13:44:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407485"},"modified":"2022-03-29T13:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:44:51","slug":"cnn-plus-launches-without-support-from-roku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-plus-launches-without-support-from-roku\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Plus Launches Without Support From Roku"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-plus-launches-without-support-from-roku%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407485&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>WarnerMedia will launch its big CNN direct-to-consumer play, CNN Plus, on Tuesday, but it will likely do it without app support on the biggest connected TV platform, Roku.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CNN reps confirmed to <em>Next TV<\/em> that they still don&#8217;t have a deal to put the CNN Plus app on Roku, less than 24 hours before launch time. But the app-support issue is even worse than that for CNN Plus, with the service also shut out of both Google connected TV platforms, Google TV and Android TV, WarnerMedia confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"><\/aside>\n<p>The leading proprietary smart TV OS platforms, Samsung and LG are also no-go, as are leading video game consoles Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox?<\/p>\n<p>CNN reps said they&#8217;re working to resolve all of these distribution hangups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company announced late Monday that the service would be playable on &#8220;desktop and across a range of supported smartphones, tablets and streaming devices, including<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Amazon Fire TV,\u00a0Android phones and tablets\u00a0and\u00a0Apple devices\u00a0(via the App Store on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read &#8211;<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexttv.com\/news\/cnn-plus\">CNN Plus: Everything You Need to Know About the Cable News Giant&#8217;s Big Direct-to-Consumer Streaming Play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inability to access CNN Plus on Roku, in particular Day 1 would be an unfortunate growth-stunter for WarnerMedia, which is all too familiar with how lack of app support can curtail launch plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two years ago, WarnerMedia launched HBO Max not only into the teeth of the global COVID-19 pandemic, but also without support on the No. 2 CTV platform, Amazon Fire TV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lack of support on Roku, however, has even graver consequences. With more than 60 million active accounts worldwide, Roku has a dominant market share of CTV homes in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WarnerMedia will launch its big CNN direct-to-consumer play, CNN Plus, on Tuesday, but it will likely do it without app support on the biggest connected TV platform, Roku.\u00a0CNN reps confirmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}